Let's Go Ice Skating!

putting on ice skates for the first time and even before I stepped on the ice, there was all this tension coiling up in my stomach like a nesting cobra

and there’s this momentary joy when I step onto the ice the unity, the coolness, for a second I feel graceful, I feel poised for a fleeting moment I am beautiful

I gain in confidence and I am gliding like I’ve been doing this my whole life (which I haven’t) And I leap in the air and for a few moments, I am suspended. Time has stopped and there is nothing But the beating of my heart, and I laugh and laugh at the absurdity of it all.

And then there’s always that moment When gravity sends me crashing back down into reality Where I belong.

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